Faridah Zaman
Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow at Somerville College.
My interests lie broadly in the modern British Empire, South Asian history, Islamic politics and political thought, anti-colonial and post-colonial writing, time and temporality, and heritage and visual culture. I am currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled 'The Young Muhammadans: Indian Muslims in a Global Age'.
My interests lie broadly in the modern British Empire, South Asian history, Islamic politics and political thought, anti-colonial and post-colonial writing, time and temporality, and heritage and visual culture. I am currently working on a book manuscript, provisionally titled 'The Young Muhammadans: Indian Muslims in a Global Age'.
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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/future-of-islam-16721924/3790D12997E969770B3377018062981B/share/2f1f3fee5c30c49192779ff8efa29eb937669799
This article examines the ways in which defining the character of early Islam has been instrumental to contemporary political debates at distinct moments in time. It looks in particular at Restoration-era England and the last decades of the Ottoman Caliphate. In the latter period, European and Muslim scholars alike reappraised Islamic history in the context of the often polemical discourse surrounding pan-Islamism and the future of Islam. Indian Muslim writers especially moved into new and inventive historical territory. They took up the vocabulary of modern politics in their histories and in doing so pluralized the heritage of certain ideas and concepts, including democracy, constitutionalism, republicanism, and socialism. The result was the articulation of a usable, progressive Islamic past.
The question of appropriations and misappropriations is ever-timely in contemporary South Asia. On the one hand the political stakes of contested historical narratives have never been higher, and on the other, the sites of contestation have never been so varied. Over the course of this workshop the organizers hope to stimulate a discussion that particularly foregrounds the ways that non-state actors have negotiated and pluralized the past over the span of the last century.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-intellectual-history/article/future-of-islam-16721924/3790D12997E969770B3377018062981B/share/2f1f3fee5c30c49192779ff8efa29eb937669799
This article examines the ways in which defining the character of early Islam has been instrumental to contemporary political debates at distinct moments in time. It looks in particular at Restoration-era England and the last decades of the Ottoman Caliphate. In the latter period, European and Muslim scholars alike reappraised Islamic history in the context of the often polemical discourse surrounding pan-Islamism and the future of Islam. Indian Muslim writers especially moved into new and inventive historical territory. They took up the vocabulary of modern politics in their histories and in doing so pluralized the heritage of certain ideas and concepts, including democracy, constitutionalism, republicanism, and socialism. The result was the articulation of a usable, progressive Islamic past.
The question of appropriations and misappropriations is ever-timely in contemporary South Asia. On the one hand the political stakes of contested historical narratives have never been higher, and on the other, the sites of contestation have never been so varied. Over the course of this workshop the organizers hope to stimulate a discussion that particularly foregrounds the ways that non-state actors have negotiated and pluralized the past over the span of the last century.